“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.”
Robert A. Heinlein

Friday, April 17, 2009

word a day#7

tautology |tôˈtäləjē|noun ( pl. -gies)the saying of the same thing twice in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style (e.g., they arrived one after the other in succession).• a phrase or expression in which the same thing is said twice in different words.• Logic a statement that is true by necessity or by virtue of its logical form.ORIGINmid 16th cent.: via late Latin from Greek, fromtautologos ‘repeating what has been said,’ from tauto- ‘same’ + -logos(see -logy).

About Me

Rob has worked in the field of entertainment since the age of 16 when in 1982 he got his first paid gig as a PA for the NFB in New Brunswick. Since then he has worked on close to 700 episodes of broadcast shows along with a few features. Currently Rob lives in New Brunswick where the lobster is cheap and the dulse seaweed is plentiful.